Politics Schumer: I started considering Trump deal in August

07:10 10 september 2017

07:10 10 september 2017 Source:
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<p>Sometimes a picture says it all. This is one of those times.</p>The photo above -- snapped by Getty photographer Alex Wong -- catches President Trump and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer in a quasi-embrace during a meeting to discuss the debt ceiling, government shutdown and disaster relief aid for victims of Hurricane Harvey.

In an interview with the New York Times' "The New Washington" podcast, Schumer said he was thinking about his "leverage" with Trump back in August during a family vacation.

"Even when I was on vacation with my family in August, I started looking," Schumer said in the interview.

"What's our leverage?" Schumer said he asked himself. "We only had one thing as leverage at that point, which was the debt ceiling."

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A new campaign ad for President Trump hits on "career politicians" for trying to impede his agenda. "Career politicians and the media, trying to stop him, but President Trump is fighting for America," the ad says, flashing pictures of Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).The ad then touts the country's successes since Trump took office."Over 1 million new jobs, companies investing billions in America, stock market reaching all time record highs, our border more secure," a narrator in the ad says.

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That leverage paid off. Last week, Trump stunned Republicans by accepting a deal with Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to raise the debt ceiling, finance the government through mid-December and fund aid for Hurricane Harvey victims just hours after House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said that such a deal was impossible.

"We've got all this devastation in Texas; we've got another unprecedented hurricane about to hit Florida. And [Democrats] want to play politics with the debt ceiling?" Ryan said earlier in the day.

"I think that's ridiculous and disgraceful that they want to play politics with the debt ceiling at this moment when we have fellow citizens in need, [so we can] respond to these hurricanes so that we don't strand them."

Trump, Schumer agree to pursue plan to repeal the debt ceiling

One of the people familiar described it as a “gentlemen’s agreement.” Subscribe to the Post Most newsletter: Today’s most popular stories on The Washington PostSenate Democrats are hopeful they can finalize an arrangement with Trump by December.“The President encouraged Congressional leaders to find a more permanent solution to the debt ceiling so the vote is not so frequently politicized,” said White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.The three people spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the contents of the meeting.

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Read Chuck Schumer 's Thoughts on Dealing With President Trump . And the famous story, which I 've told on occasion, my daughters were about 4 and 8, and I took them to see "Free Willy." When he escaped, I started to really cry.

Schumer told the Times that he and Trump could talk "right at" each other, due to their shared New York heritage, pointing to a meeting after Trump won the election.

"The one thing we have is we're New Yorkers," Schumer said. "We're pretty direct, and we talk right at each other."

"I said to President-elect Trump: 'Look, we're not going to obstruct you, just for the sake of obstruction. If you'll work with us, as long as we can keep our values, we'll work together," Schumer said he told Trump last year.

Schumer also detailed the phone call he received from Trump after the deal, praising the positive media coverage of their meeting.

Pelosi reportedly interjects at WH dinner: 'Do the women get to talk around here?' .
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was reportedly forced to interject over a loud conversation during a recent dinner with President Trump as Democratic leaders discussed making a deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The Washington Post reports that Pelosi, who was the only woman in attendance at the meeting between Trump, Cabinet officials and Democratic leaders on Wednesday, was trying to make a point when the men at the table began talking over her and over each other about how Trump would benefit from striking a deal with the Democrats.

Read Chuck Schumer 's Thoughts on Dealing With President Trump . And the famous story, which I 've told on occasion, my daughters were about 4 and 8, and I took them to see "Free Willy." When he escaped, I started to really cry.

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